Tartaro: I'll keep my statement brief. Really, there isn't much to say. This
is an open and shut case. Now, the defense will try to complicate it. I'll give
you evidence of a man, just married and anxious to protect his new family. Now,
the defense may tell you that he was attacked. They'll try to paint the victim,
Shane McGrath, as a volatile and dangerous man. But the facts in this case are
clear. It's very simple. Dominick Marone shot Shane McGrath and then disposed of
his body to conceal the crime. Now, I'm confident that once you hear the facts,
once you hear the evidence, you'll have no problem making the right decision in
this case.

Judge: The defense may proceed.

Storm: According to the prosecutor, this case is so simple that even 12
people who couldn't get out of jury duty could figure it out. I disagree. I
believe you'll figure it out. But it's not so simple. And it's definitely not
open and shut. So, in the interest of justice, I hope you'll forgive me for
wasting your time with a few facts of my own. Fact -- the evidence that the
prosecution is so confident about doesn't prove that Mr. Marone killed anyone.
It places Shane McGrath on his boat, but it doesn't tell us when or what he was
doing there. And it certainly does not place Mr. Marone there with him. Fact,
Mr. Marone is a wealthy man. He's a powerful man. Some would say a ruthless man.
And a man like that has many enemies. Jealous, vindictive people who would give
just about anything to see Mr. Marone sitting exactly where he's sitting right
now. Which is why it is my belief, and I hope it will be yours too, that Mr.
Marone was framed for a murder he did not commit.

[Ridge remembering]

[Gunshot]

Brooke: You can't keep me here forever.

Stephanie: I'm going to keep you here as long as I have to.

Brooke: If it was an accident, he won't have to go to jail.

Stephanie: It was an accident! The problem is, there only two people in the
room that know what happened, and one of them is dead! So, how does he prove
that it was an accident?

Brooke: Stop it! I don't want to debate this anymore. You're not helping
yourself and you're not helping Ridge.

Stephanie: You are not helping Ridge. Why? Why are you being so loyal to
Nick? What do you think, he's going to dump Taylor and come running back to you?
It isn't going to happen.

Tartaro: This audiotape has been admitted into evidence as exhibit "a". Mr.
Chase, you are the harbormaster of the Marina Del Rey?

Harbormaster: Yes, I am.

Tartaro: As such, it is your responsibility to monitor the traffic in and out
of the marina?

Harbormaster: Yes, ma'am.

Tartaro: Now, was the tape the jury is about to hear taken from your office?

Harbormaster: Yes.

Nick: Harbormaster Shady Marlin ii.

Harbormaster: Come in Shady Marlin ii.

Nick: Going out for a couple of hours, no destination, taking the new rig for
a spin, over.

Tartaro: We've already established the day and time this tape was made. Can
you confirm that information?

Harbormaster: Yes.

Tartaro: And do you recognize the voice on the tape?

Harbormaster: It's Nick Marone.

Tartaro: No further questions. Your witness.

Storm: Do you have any other record of the Marlin leaving the marina that
night?

Harbormaster: No, sir.

Storm: Could someone else have taken the boat out without your knowledge?

Harbormaster: Someone else?

Storm: Can a boat leave the marina without contacting you?

Harbormaster: Yes. But I keep an eye out.

Storm: So, you never leave your post?

Harbormaster: Sometimes I have to.

Storm: Okay, so if a boat left the marina during one of those times, could
you miss it?

Harbormaster: Yes.

Storm: Now, are you the only one watching the marina? Is there any security
guarding the boats?

Harbormaster: Not really.

Storm: So anyone could have had access to my client's boat that night?

Harbormaster: I guess.

Storm: No further questions.

Tartaro: Redirect, your honor. Mr. Chase, were there any reports of
suspicious activity around the marina the week in question?

Harbormaster: No, ma'am. Not a one.

Stephanie: You're going to stay right where you are.

Brooke: If you don't let me go, you're the one going to jail.

Stephanie: Oh, you want to see R.J.'s grandmother in prison?

Brooke: Now, all of a sudden we're family?

Stephanie: Well, sometimes families don't get along. They do disagree.

Brooke: Stephanie, you strangled me and kidnapped me and held a gun on me!

Stephanie: I didn't shoot you, did I? I only lost my temper a little bit.

Brooke: You've lost your mind if you think I owe you some kind of loyalty. I
don't, Stephanie. Think about everything that you're done to me.

Stephanie: I try not --

Brooke: Think about it! I mean, maybe you've forgotten. But I certainly
haven't. And I won't! Never!

Stephanie: I'm not going to let you destroy our --

Brooke: The physical attacks.

Stephanie: I'm not let you destroy these children! Don't you ever, ever say
anything like that to me again.

Brooke: Humiliations. Let go! Put me down! You hear me?

Stephanie: My dear take a look, you bitch! That's no halo! And you're not
heroine.

Brooke: The insults and degradations. Why do you treat --

Stephanie: The whore of Beverly Hills he wants him like a $2 hooker. A mother
in perpetual heat slut, that's what you are and that's what you'll always be. I
don't give a flying fink what you do. Where you do it, or who you do it to.
There's no shortage of whores in the world

Brooke: I've put up with enough! I won't let you treat me like that, ever
again. And I am not going to help you put an innocent man in jail. You can't buy
my silence, you can't buy my loyalty. There's only one way you can stop me.

Tartaro: Mr. Digby, you are a forensic expert.

Digby: Yes.

Tartaro: The hair found on the defendant's boat was confirmed to belong to
the victim, Shane McGrath.

Digby: Yes.

Tartaro: And was this blood-stained shirt also found on the boat?

Storm: Your honor.

Judge: Do you have an objection, Mr. Logan?

Storm: No sir. The defense will stipulate that the shirt does belong to Mr.
Marone and the blood on the shirt does belong to Shane McGrath.

Lt. Baker: We followed the evidence. We had Mr. Marone's own words that he
took the boat out that night. The hair and blood samples we found on the boat
gave us cause to arrest him.

Tartaro: But surely, you needed more than just a few hairs and some blood.
Did Mr. Marone also have a motive?

Lt. Baker: Yes, he did.

Tartaro: Could you elaborate?

Lt. Baker: Days before the victim washed up on the beach, Dr. Taylor Hayes
Marone, the defendant's wife, requested a restraining order against Shane
McGrath. She felt that McGrath was stalking her daughter, Phoebe, and posed a
danger to the family.

Tartaro: Did the defendant feel the same?

Lt. Baker: Yes, he did. However, when I explained to him that a restraining
order might not be necessary, he became extremely frustrated and emotional. He
said that if the police weren't prepared to take this seriously, he would deal
with McGrath himself.

Tartaro: Thank you, Lieutenant. Your witness.

Storm: Lieutenant baker, isn't it true that Shane McGrath is a drifter with a
criminal record?

Lt. Baker: Yes.

Storm: So, he's not the type of man that any parent would want associating
with his teenage daughter?

Lt. Baker: No, sir.

Storm: Any parent, including Ridge Forrester, Phoebe's father?

Lt. Baker: A parent would have reason to be concerned.

Storm: So, he would have even more reason to want to protect his family than
my client, wouldn't he?

Lt. Baker: Yes. However, Mr. Forrester agreed with me. He didn't think the
restraining order was necessary either.

Brooke: I meant what I said, Stephanie. When I get out of here, I'm going
straight to the D.A.

Stephanie: If you get out of here.

Brooke: What Ridge did to Shane, it wasn't murder. But if you do anything to
me, it will be.

Stephanie: That's how you see me, isn't it? Really. Capable of anything.

Brooke: I've got the scars to prove it.

Stephanie: No good memories?

Brooke: Excuse me?

Stephanie: Well, we have had our moments. Welcome to the family, Brooke.

Stephanie: You've brought amazing success to this company and to the family.
Eric and the boys love you. I know that. And you've given them beautiful
children. Children that I love as well in spite of my differences with you.

Brooke: You've made me so happy today.

Stephanie: I think it's the nicest gift I ever got in my life.

Brooke: You love me.

Stephanie: I love you sweetheart. You've grown up.

Brooke: I know you love me.

Stephanie: Those children are the Forrester legacy. And in reality, so are
you, Brooke. I don't want Ridge's mistake to become part of that legacy. If you
go to the district attorney now, before we know anything -- and everything that
we've accomplished, will just become part of -- of one of the biggest scandals
that this town's ever seen.

Tartaro: Mrs. Marone, do you recall a day when Shane McGrath visited the
Forrester Creations office?

Storm: Is it possible that during that fight that Mr. Marone got some of
Shane McGrath's blood on his shirt?

Jackie: Yes, it is.

Tartaro: Objection! Speculation!

Storm: Withdrawn.

Tartaro: Mrs. Marone, did you see blood on your son's shirt?

Jackie: He had on a dark jacket.

Tartaro: Did you see any blood?

Jackie: No.

Tartaro: Now, you said they fought? Punches were thrown? Would you say your
son was angry?

Jackie: I don't know what was in his mind.

Tartaro: He attacked Shane McGrath in the office. Was he acting out of anger?

Jackie: Yes, but he didn't attack --

Tartaro: And if Shane had confronted him again, would he have been even more
angry? Would he have been angry enough to kill?

Storm: Objection!

Tartaro: Withdrawn.

Brooke: You're not the only one who's worried about the Forrester legacy.
Ridge --

Stephanie: Understands -- he understands why he has to keep quiet.

Brooke: But he didn't want to. You forced him to go to Paris.

Stephanie: Ridge is fine.

Brooke: No, he's not. I know Ridge. And I know what he must be going through.

Stephanie: Look, once Nick is acquitted, once everything gets back to normal
--

Brooke: Normal? Stephanie, Ridge killed a man. Shane was shot and Ridge had
that gun in his hand. He's never going to forget that. And if he doesn't come
forward now, that's going to haunt him forever.

Stephanie: I don't want him to go to jail.

Brooke: I will have tell the courts that Ridge didn't shoot Grant. I'll just
have to come forward and we'll have to tell the truth. The whole truth.
Everything. What your son did. What my son did. How Rick shot grant, and Ridge
took the blame.

Stephanie: You want to bring this all up about Rick and Grant? This whole
mess?

Brooke: Oh, God. No, no, of course I don't. I don't. But what else are we
going to do? What choice do we have? Rick was a minor then, so -- I don't think
he's going to be held accountable now. Do you? Look, Stephanie, we have to tell
the truth. The truth. For our sons. Please, just call Ridge. Call Ridge now.

Stephanie: You call him.

[Phone rings]

Ridge: Mother?

Brooke: No, it's me.

Ridge: Logan?

Brooke: Yeah. I'm here with your mother. And I know about Shane.

Ridge: It was an accident.

Brooke: You can explain everything when you come home.

Ridge: You want me to come back?

Brooke: As soon as you can.

Ridge: Mother's with you right now?

Brooke: Yes, she is. She realizes that what you were doing was wrong. That
you need to tell the police everything that happened. And that she -- she agrees
that letting Nick take the fault was also wrong. And I know that you know that.
Ridge, please just come home.

Ridge: That's what I wanted to do in the beginning.

Brooke: Well, now you can.

Ridge: Look, Logan, I don't know what you said to change her mind about all
this, but thank you. I know this sounds kind of crazy, but if you had any idea
what I've been going through --

Brooke: I do. I'll see you soon. Well, he sounds relieved.

Stephanie: I'm sure.

Brooke: What about you?

Stephanie: I guess I'm relieved, too. I feel I can breathe again. You were
right about all of this. I guess I -- I guess in my heart I knew we just
couldn't keep going on like this. Lying, getting in deeper every day. But you
know, sometimes, Brooke, you just -- you lose your way. I guess we've lost ours.
Thank you.

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